Spurgeon on The Doctrines of Grace

“I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.”
 

 

Tolerated Nonattendance

“A member’s regular, tolerated nonattendance begins to raise further questions.  What kind of leadership must a church have to allow such a misrepresentation to arise and flourish?  What expectations are being communicated to those who are joining?  What discipline is practiced, if any?  In fact, tolerated noninvolvement among members may even call into question the [...]

Great Quotes

“The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for us. We…put ourselves where only God deserves to be; God…puts himself where we deserve to be.”
from the book The Cross of Christ

Another Great Quote….

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning…”

C.S. Lewis-Mere Christianity

Great Quotes

“Grant what thou commandest and then
command what thou wilt.”
Augustine of Hippo

Great Quotes

“Nothing can come amiss to him that hath assurance. God is his. Hath he lost a friend?-His Father lives. Hath he lost an only child?-God hath given His only Son. Hath he scarcity of bread?-God hath given him the finest of the wheat, the bread of life. Are his comforts gone?-He hath a Comforter. Doth [...]

Great Quotes

“Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God’s answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.”   
Tim Keller, Redeemer Presbyterian Church  NYC,NY

Great Quotes

“I’ve heard people say, ‘We’re an Acts 1:8 church’, and I’ve heard people say that, ‘We’re an Acts 2:42 church’, but I’ve never heard anyone say, ‘We want to be an Acts 5:1-14 church.’”
Jeff Noblit, pastor First Baptist Church, Muscle Shoals, AL

J.C. Ryle-What it cost to be a true Christian

 ” …….I grant freely that it costs little to be a mere outward Christian.  A man has only got to attend a place of worship twice on sunday, and to be tolerably moral during the week, and he has gone as far as thousands around him ever go in religion.  All this is cheap and [...]

Martyn Lloyd-Jones on Unity

“It is being said that the chief need of the Church today is to repent because of its ‘lack of unity’… we would suggest that before she repents of her disunity, she must repent of her apostasy. She must repent of her perversion of, and substitutes for, ‘the faith once delivered to the saints.’ She [...]